| Curricular Competency |
Access information for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources to inform writing |
New Media 10 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Explore diversity among First Peoples cultures, as represented in new media and other texts |
New Media 10 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Explore the role of story, narrative, and oral tradition in expressing First Peoples perspectives, values, beliefs, and points of view |
New Media 10 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Read for enjoyment and to achieve personal goals |
New Media 10 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize the complexities of digital citizenship |
New Media 10 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
| Keyword: digital citizenship |
Elaboration: self-monitored habits and actions of participation and membership in digital communities |
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| Big Ideas |
Creative writers are observant of the world. |
Creative Writing 10 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Creative writers take risks and persevere. |
Creative Writing 10 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Language shapes ideas and influences others. |
Creative Writing 10 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Texts are socially, culturally, geographically, and historically constructed. |
Creative Writing 10 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
The exploration of text and story deepens our understanding of diverse, complex ideas about identity, others, and the world. |
Creative Writing 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: text |
Elaboration: “Text” and “texts” are generic terms referring to all forms of oral, written, visual, or digital communication:Oral texts include speeches, poems, plays, oral stories, and songs.Written texts include novels, articles, and short stories.Visual texts include posters, photographs, and other images.Digital texts include electronic forms of all of the above.Oral, written, and visual elements can be combined (e.g., in dramatic presentations, graphic novels, films, web pages, advertisements). |
| Keyword: story |
Elaboration: narrative texts, whether real or imagined, that teach us about human nature, motivation, behaviour, and experience, and often reflect a personal journey or strengthen a sense of identity. They may also be considered the embodiment of collective wisdom. Stories can be oral, written, or visual and used to instruct, inspire, and entertain listeners and readers. |
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| Content |
Language features, structures, and conventions
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language features
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elements of style
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exploration of voice
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usage and conventions
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literary elements and devices
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Creative Writing 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: elements of style |
Elaboration: stylistic choices that make one specific writer distinguishable from others, including diction, vocabulary, sentence structure, and tone. |
| Keyword: voice |
Elaboration: point of viewhumour, irony, satire, witperspective (e.g., persona) |
| Keyword: usage |
Elaboration: avoiding common usage errors (e.g., double negatives, mixed metaphors, malapropisms, and word misuse) |
| Keyword: conventions |
Elaboration: common practices of standard punctuation, capitalization, quoting, and Canadian spelling |
| Keyword: literary elements and devices |
Elaboration: Texts use various literary devices, including figurative language, according to purpose and audience. |
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| Content |
Strategies and processes- reading strategies
- oral language strategies
- metacognitive strategies
- writing processes
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Creative Writing 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: reading strategies |
Elaboration: There are many strategies that readers use when making sense of text. Students consider what strategies they need to use to “unpack” text. They employ strategies with increasing independence depending on the purpose, text, and context. Strategies include but may not be limited to predicting, inferring, questioning, paraphrasing, using context clues, using text features, visualizing, making connections, summarizing, identifying big ideas, synthesizing, and reflecting. |
| Keyword: oral language strategies |
Elaboration: includes speaking with expression, connecting to listeners, asking questions to clarify, listening for specifics, summarizing, paraphrasing |
| Keyword: metacognitive strategies |
Elaboration: thinking about our own thinking, and reflecting on our processes and determining strengths and challengesStudents employ metacognitive strategies to gain increasing independence in learning. |
| Keyword: writing processes |
Elaboration: There are various writing processes depending on context. These may include determining audience and purpose, generating or gathering ideas, free-writing, making notes, drafting, revising, and/or editing. Writers often have very personalized processes when writing. Writing is an iterative process. |
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| Content |
Text features and structures- narrative structures found in First Peoples texts
- protocols related to ownership of First Peoples oral texts
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Creative Writing 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: Text features |
Elaboration: elements of the text that are not considered the main body. These may include typography (bold, italics, underlined font), font style, guide words, key words, titles, diagrams, captions, labels, maps, charts, illustrations, tables, photographs, and sidebars/text boxes. |
| Keyword: narrative structures found in First Peoples texts |
Elaboration: (e.g., circular, iterative, cyclical) |
| Keyword: protocols related to ownership of First Peoples oral texts |
Elaboration: First Peoples stories often have protocols for when and where they can be shared, who owns them, and who can share them. |
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| Content |
Text forms and text genres |
Creative Writing 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: genres |
Elaboration: literary or thematic categories (e.g., adventure, fable, fairy tale, fantasy, folklore, historical, horror, legend, mystery, mythology, picture book, science fiction, biography, essay, journalism, manual, memoir, personal narrative, speech) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Transform ideas and information to create original texts. |
Creative Writing 10 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
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